Lockheed Martin’s Warren: Space Sustainability Requires International Cooperation Written 22 July 2021

Space News reported that during an AIAA online event Tuesday, Jennifer Warren, Lockheed Martin’s vice president of civil and regulatory affairs, “said space sustainability is a common objective of many countries ‘but I really think achieving and maintaining it requires a level of international collaboration and cooperation that we’re still aspiring to.’” Warren said that in order to get to a safe operating environment for spacecraft, “I would suggest...not uniquely inter governmental or uniquely private sector discussions, but...a very robust multi-stakeholder approach.” Warren “said Lockheed Martin has advocated for satellite operators to adopt the World Economic Forum’s Space Sustainability Rating (SSR),” which is an in-development rating system that scores “manufacturers and operators based on factors such as plans to de-orbit systems upon completion of missions; choice of orbital altitude; ability of systems to be detected and identified from the ground; collision-avoidance measures; size and number of objects left in space from the launch vehicle; and sharing of data.”
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